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The Government's youth crime action plan is being underpinned with a £30 million fund to support projects that help young people avoid becoming involved in gang violence. This is all to the good. Any attempt to tackle knife crime has to engage with the underlying problem of alienated youth with too few educational and sporting opportunities. Yet at the same time as ministers promote this laudable objective, we report today on one organisation that fulfils it, yet faces closure because of the want of long-term funding commitments from the Home Office. Over the past 12 years, the foundation From Boyhood to Manhood has helped more than 11,000 teenagers from poorer communities to take their education seriously. It has provided them with the structure and routine to turn their lives around. Now it is faced with the withdrawal of its long-term funding.